This should probably have been one of the earliest questions to bring up, and I think some basic definition of open science was part of the StackExchange beta, but on the current site, we do not provide a definition, so it seems about time to start a thread on how open science is defined, or what defines it.

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One example amongst the many available, this systematic literature review may be an overkill.. but it makes the following proposition: “Open Science is transparent and accessible knowledge that is shared and developed through collaborative networks”

Ask Open Science used to be called Open Science Q&A but we changed the name when we registered the domain ask-open-science.org. Everything else stays the same: We are still hosted by Bielefeld University Library.